Senior Consultant

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• Job Title: Senior Consultant – for Kantar Consulting Team
• Job Location: New York City, Boston, or Chicago

• Delivery of high-quality/high-impact foresight, innovation, brand strategy and consulting solutions, while actively building client relationships with the world’s most valuable brands and developing consulting skills in a dynamic, vibrant, collaborative and fun environment
• Starting to build client relationships and take a lead role in managing commercial aspects of client engagements

• Deliver a range of consulting engagements including trends and strategic foresight, cultural insight and applied semiotics, front-end innovation, commerce and brand strategy, market structures, consumer and demand segmentation, brand valuation, portfolio and architecture strategy, and brand purpose.
• Understand and frame client challenges
  across marketing, foresight, commerce, and innovation; support solution design with manager guidance to ensure outputs are meaningful, accurate, and actionable.
• Actively participate in project and client discussions
  , collaborating proactively with team members to achieve project objectives.
• Responsible for ownership of specific phases or discrete work processes on projects in coordination with project lead, including questionnaire and sample design, analytic planning, trend scouting, and cultural mining.
• Responsible for ownership of analysis and synthesis of qualitative and quantitative data
  from primary research and secondary sources into clear, compelling narratives in coordination with project lead; demonstrate strong written, verbal, and visual storytelling skills.
• Collaborate with team members to translate research and analysis into meaningful insights to drive impact for clients.
• Effectively use AI tools
  to support analysis, efficiency, and delivery.
• Responsible for managing timelines, quality, and execution
  , coordinating with project lead, internal teams and clients and identifying and resolving issues as they arise.
• Ensure rigorous quality control
  through in-depth checks at key stages of the project lifecycle.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and ownership
  , following research and project plans, actively contributing ideas, and constructively challenging perspectives.
• Develop clear, impactful client deliverables
  , including presentations and supporting materials.
• Continuously improve ways of working
  , identifying opportunities to streamline, automate, and enhance processes, including through AI-enabled approaches—without compromising quality.
• Build personal and team capability
  , taking ownership of skill development and supporting others through collaboration and knowledge sharing about tools, tasks, best practices, and Kantar offers.
• Maintain curiosity and functional expertise
  , developing a strong understanding of Kantar capabilities, data sources, tools, practice areas, and industry developments.
• Build strong internal relationships
  , proactively seeking feedback and collaboration across consulting teams.
• Support growth activities
  , including proposal development and broader business initiatives.
• Actively contribute to culture and community
  , participating in team, ERG, and social/community activities.
• 3-5 years of professional experience in similar capacity; market research or consulting experience preferred with exposure to brand strategy, foresight, and innovation engagements supported by qualitative and quantitative methodologies
• Bachelor’s degree; preferred major or concentration in marketing / market research, social science, mathematics or other analytic fields
• An insatiable curiosity, open-minded and willingness to learn – always on the lookout for innovative ideas and inspiration, new ways of working, frameworks and thinking that can inspire our team
• Strong process and time management skills; capable of prioritizing and delivering against multiple/competing deadlines, prior project management experience…